Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
  • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
  • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
  • A61F13/56—Supporting or fastening means
  • A61F13/66—Garments, holders or supports not integral with absorbent pads
  • A61F13/74—Garments, holders or supports not integral with absorbent pads having means to retain absorbent pads
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41B—SHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; BABY LINEN; HANDKERCHIEFS
  • A41B11/00—Hosiery; Panti-hose
  • A41B11/14—Panti-hose; Body-stockings
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
  • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
  • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
  • A61F13/505—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators with separable parts, e.g. combination of disposable and reusable parts

Definitions

• This invention relates to hosiery undergarments with slits at either side of crotch/gusset.
• hosiery has been divided into stockings of various lengths and tights in which a body portion is provided with hosiery legs which may extend as far as to cover the toes of the feet. They are not, however, always suitable in hot weather when many women would prefer to go bare legged.
• These items of hosiery are normally distinguished from under garments, such as panties, knickers, etc. in which the bodies of the latter tend to be relatively loose and the leg portions not closely associated with the wearer's leg, but finishing just below the buttocks, often creating an unflattering line visible on the outer garment, commonly known as panty-line or knicker-line.
• a garment (Fig. 1 illustrates a short version of garment) with a supporting and sculpting body portion (Fig.l feature 2) to shape the contours of the body beautifully, of translucent light hosiery weight material, having a significant leg portion (Fig.l features 3 and 4) to avoid visible knicker-lines, yet short enough to be comfortably worn during hot summer days when bare feet or legs are desired, both leg portions (Fig.l feature 4) finished with one of either methods described below to avoid such leg portions rising up and with slits on either side of crotch-gusset (Fig 2 feature A) to permit use of modern sanitary towels with side flaps and finished with an upper waist-band (Fig.l feature 1)) to hold garment in place.
• the upper body portion of garment can be finished at different heights of the body as required i.e hip level, waist level or below bust-line level.
• light hosiery weight material is meant one of the materials well known in the art, for example nylon, rayon, silk, Lycra, (registered trademark) or blends thereof, usually of a knitted structure, the denier of the fiber and the weight of knitting being appropriate to hosiery type garments i.e.: relatively transparent or translucent materials, as compared to the more heavy structures of for example girdles or other rigid garments or materials such as wool.
• a garment of this nature can have sufficient weight of material and structure to effect control but invisible enough to be worn under close fitting outer garments.
• support or sculpting is meant different levels of pressure applied to body of wearer by garment to help shape the body of wearer, ie: flatten stomach and smooth hips.
• the structuring and styling of the garment will be such that it is resilient and expandable, so that on donning the garment the body will cause some expansion of the garment, as it is donned, resulting in a close fit of the garment to the body as compared to looser garments such as panties, knickers and similar garments.
• Fig. 1 is a front view of a short version of the garment according to the invention
• Fig 2 is a frontal view of the crotch area showing slits at each side
• the garment represents a body of construction similar to the body portion of a pair of conventional tights extending from approximately the waist , down to the legs.
• the upper portion of leg is of a similar construction to the rest of the garment, the leg portion, which could be of various lengths and extend as far down as the ankles , would be finished with a separate strip of material, such as lace or other decorative material sewn later to the leg portion but with some degree of extensibility.
• Disposed around the internal periphery of this edge portion of the garment may be a series of rings, strips or other shapes of silicone rubber polymeric type materials which are also extensible and which have a slightly tacky feel to them as to ensure adherence to the skin when worn.
• To use one of the above described methods to finish the lower end of each leg portion is essential to prevent rolling up of the leg portions of the garment when worn.
• the body portion (fig 1 feature 2) and upper leg portion (fig 1 feature 3) are constructed of a conventional light weight hosiery weight knitted material which stretches on being donned by the wearer, so as to hug the body of the wearer and may have sufficient additional strengthen portions to exercise control over certain portions of the wearer's body.
• the material used can be a nylon , Lycra (register trade mark) or a mixture of nylon with cotton or other blends thereof.
• the crotch area (Fig 2 feature A) of this under-garment would have a slit on each side of gusset to allow the side-flaps of sanitary towels to be exposed outside garment and wrapped around gusset or crotch of the same to prevent movement of sanitary towels.
• the said slit between the crotch and leg portion can be constructed in various lengths and be finished in well known manners in the industry to avoid fraying of the material.

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